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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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A journey of discovery, weaving music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

A weekly journey of discovery, weaving together a range of music with poetry and prose read by leading actors.

Words and Music: Abundance

Abundance

19/02/2012

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Music and poetry on the theme of abundance read by Nicholas Farrell and Hayley Carmichael.

Music and poetry on the theme of plenty. Hayley Carmichael and Nicholas Farrell read poems by Hughes, MacNeice and Campion, plus music by Prokofiev, Dutilleux and Tallis.

Abundance: plenty, excess and enough. Hayley Carmichael and Nicholas Farrell read poems by Ted Hughes, Louis MacNeice and Thomas Campion with music from Prokofiev, Dutilleux and Thomas Tallis. 
 
Producer NATALIE STEED.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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